Necktie Remedy

It's about...what's the word.....oh yeah alcoholics and any form of addiction.

ok, that sort of makes sense but i don't see how the whole addicition thing goes with the spoken verse and the "necktie remedy" line

I take the "necktie remedy" part to mean a remedy from our daily lives with necktie equaling work like wearing a necktie at the office.

i think this song is totally talking about suicide "necktie remedy" being a noose, and it talks about trips down the well and swinging from the necktie remedy

and the "sugarcube mixture that saves the day" would be poison but it could also totally be about drugs or alcohol i agree

thats what im gettin anyway

This song is definitely about Alcoholism and how it is such an unwise decision to try to escape life by drinking.

You say: "The sugarcube mixture saves the day." You say: "The green cloudy waters will take you away." But when dawn floods in With the day The journey I imagined brought Me right back here to a swing from a necktie remedie, necktie remedie

i mean honestly, it's getting drunk, they raise their drinks high. it's an escape from life, work " the necktie" but not only work, responsibility, instead of facing problems people are avoiding them by drinking. "when the dawn floods in" i mean it's getting hammered, waking up, not know whats going on, except that knowing they avoided another night of thinking by making that night immemorable.

The well is a deep pit you get yourself into each time you drink, how you put yourself there, hide there, escape, i'm pretty sure, i dont see how it could be interpreted otherwise.

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yeah the alcohol thing is making more sense than my suicide theory. well said elevatorface

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The second verse may be talking specifically about absinthe, a green liquor that, when mixed with water, turns cloudy. After being mixed with water, a sugarcube is dissolved in the mixture in order to remove some of the bitterness. Absinthe was also said to have hallucinogenic effects, which may be what "the journey I imagined" is referencing.

You say: Make me into something Give me a body

[Asking for a meaning, an existence]

And you say: Let me out the bottle Make me into someone

[A bottle of liquor is the answer this person choses to give their life meaning and existence, or at least dim the lack of it]

You can give me life [Or semblance of life] And I'll trade The potion you embody [the potion it embodies is indeed life, or a healing elixer, something helpful] with Trips down the well [going the opposite direction of what is wanted] and a swing from a necktie remedy, necktie remedy.

[I see this in two ways. the first being the most plausable: That alcohol is the remedy for the necktie, or an escape from everyday life, and since the song is about escapism, this is likely. The second way is I visualize someone patching up something using a necktie, obviously the wrong choice of tool but effective none the less.]

You can give me life...

Let me in, Let me in You'll raise your drinks up high You'll raise your drinks up high

[Like a toast]

You say: "The sugarcube mixture saves the day." You say: "The green cloudy waters will take you away."

[As snarerushjunkie mentioned, this is indeed referring to Absinth, a popular drink for artists as the herbs and wormwood it is formed out of enhance one's artistic ablity, used by Vincent Van Gohe regularly]

But when dawn floods in With the day

[Coming out of the inebriated state, not a "high" per say, more of an imagined high]

The journey I imagined [Illusion of progress] brought Me right back here to a swing from a necktie remedie, necktie remedie [escapism again, even the excuse of "art" doesn't conceal escapism, call a spade a spade]

You can give me life...

Let me in, it's cold in this abyss Let me in cause it's cold You'll raise your drinks up high and swallow to forget You'll raise your drinks up high We'll swallow to forget

Let me in.

[Pretty self explanatory in the context of alcohol, for anyone who's indulged, it's nice.]

You'll be vacant Repossessed For those moments (That you) occupy me.

Now let's make me something in and of myself And become the cataclysmic reality So far beyond the symptom, I, limitless when you empower me Because habit takes root in decision And you can bet that I can wait If you can For the moment when you need a little pick me up A little bump A little boost A little helping hand.

[This is inebriation talking, it's enticing.]

Let me in, it's cold in this abyss Let me in cause it's cold You'll raise your drinks up high and swallow to forget You'll raise your drinks up high And swallow to forget

You'll raise your drinks up high

I think this song is about what addictions and substance abuse but i think that the part about the necktie is about kinda about suicide. Cause when your using drugs your are killing yourself. Mabey im wrong but i think thats right. Cause metaphorically which is how this song is written a necktie is a noose.(back when there was capital punishemrnt people called hangings necktie parties)

hey ominousoat, you've been in a couple of project 86 songs and you give good meanings....keep the good job up. God bless u.